Deschamps rules out Taiwo sale

Marseille coach Didier Deschamps has no plans to sell Taye Taiwo, despite reported interest in the Nigeria defender from Tottenham. The 25-year-old left-back is keen to get regular football after seeing his first-team opportunities at OM limited last term by the arrival of Gabriel Heinze from Real Madrid.But Deschamps appears keen to keep Taiwo at the Stade Velodrome and could offer him a new deal, with his current contract set to expire next summer."He is here and will be here until the end of the season," Deschamps told La Provence."He is under contract for another year. We have an interest in prolonging it so that he is not free in 2011. I need him, especially as a replacement would cost me more money. I count on him."

Source: Team_Talk